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Why No Chinese Miracle in Africa? Special Economic Zones and Liberalization Avalanches

Moberg, Lotta - 2014

Special economic zones (SEZs) have been touted as “tools for development”, and yet their results have often been disappointing. We explain how SEZs can be used to reform a country from a system dominated by rent-seeking to a liberalized economy, where officials derive their revenues from...

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The Impact of Trade Liberalization in Africa

Jung, Jae Wook - 2018

Africa is one of the most economic-integrated continents by a number of regional trade agreements in the continent … trade of Africa, which is much lower than other continents' intra-regional trade share. This discrepancy between many … regional trade agreements and small intra-continent trade share tells that regional economic integrations in Africa are very …

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New Evidence in the Relationship Between Trade Openness and Food Security in SubSaharan Africa

Wonyra, Kwami Ossadzifo; GNEDEKA, Kodjo Theodore - 2022

empirical results show that trade openness significantly improves food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the presence …

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Foreign investment, international trade and environmental sustainability : exploring ecological footprints in 37 African countries

Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu; Emeka, Ekene; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2023

This study complements existing literature by examining the short-run heterogeneous and longrun homogeneous impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on ecological footprints in 37 African countries for the period 1990 to 2019. Utilizing the pooled mean group estimator,...

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Reduced time at customs through implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) would be a significant boost to intra-African trade for AfCFTA countries

De Melo, Jaime; Sorgho, Zakaria; Wagner, Laurent - 2023

All WTO members participate in the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), a rules-based bottom-up approach built on monitorable provisions (e.g. the publication of information, advance rulings, appeal or review of decisions, transparency, and border agency cooperation) aimed at reducing time in...

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Services Trade Policy and Industry Performance in African Economies

Quinn, Dennis P.; Fiorini, Matteo; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2023

This paper assesses the potential impacts of services trade liberalisation for a sample of African countries. The focus is on the relationship between labour productivity of manufacturing sectors and two types of services trade-related policies – restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI)...

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Services trade and institutional quality : evidence from Africa

Němečková, Tereza; Hayat, Arshad - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 59, pp. 6978-6996

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Trade Reform and Regional Integration in Africa

Iqbal, Zubair - 1998

Africa, conducted by the IMF nad the African Economic Research Consortium. It represents the views of government officials … Africa. Issues include the role of trade liberalization in promoting sustained growth, interdependence of trade and …

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Implementing the African continent free trade agreement : evidence from Southern Africa

Kararach, George; Kedir, Abbi Mamo; Kahsay, Tewodros Negash - 2023

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Murky trade waters : regional tariff commitments and non-tariff measures in Africa

Stender, Frederik; Vogel, Tim - In: Journal of international trade & economic development : … 32 (2023) 7, pp. 1058-1082

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